Settings
Indexing controls, pricing version, exports, ingest status and parse errors.
The only page that changes anything. At /settings, under GOVERN. Two columns: controls on the left, status on the right.
Search indexing
The panel text: "Indexes Claude's replies, thinking and tool output into a local FTS5 table so Transcripts search covers more than your prompts. Stored in ~/.argus/argus.db; nothing leaves the machine." Its sub-label reads on or off, and a status line shows 41,690 segments · 682 sessions indexed. While a backfill runs, an amber backfilling 120/682 line appears; status refreshes every 4 seconds.
| Button | Shown when | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enable indexing | indexing is off | Turns indexing on and immediately starts a background backfill over sessions that have no segments yet |
| Disable indexing | indexing is on | Turns it off. Existing segments stay on disk but are hidden from search |
| Clear indexed data | segments exist | After confirming "Delete all indexed transcript segments? Your prompts and sessions are unaffected.", deletes every segment, compacts the database, and leaves indexing off |
See Search & privacy for what a segment is and how the CLI commands differ.
Read-only mode
When the daemon is running, the dashboard is a read-only viewer and all three buttons are refused by the server. The dashboard currently shows no error when that happens. Check the sidebar footer: if it reads argusd daemon, use argus indexing enable and friends from the terminal, or stop the daemon first.
Pricing
One paragraph, no button: "Costs are estimated from pricing table 2026-06-12. Tokens are exact. Run argus pricing refresh to update (the only network call Argus ever makes, and only when you ask)." Refreshing is a terminal action; see the CLI reference.
Export data
Download JSON exports the full session rows. Download CSV exports ten columns per session: id, agent, started_at, ended_at, project_path, primary_model, total_cost_usd, total_fresh_input_tokens, total_output_tokens, turn_count. Both exclude sub-agent rows and sessions with no activity.
Wipe local data
Text only: "To remove everything Argus stores, stop the server and delete ~/.argus/. The dashboard never deletes your data on its own." The terminal equivalent is argus wipe, which also removes any templates you saved. There is no data-directory picker in the dashboard; the path is fixed unless you start Argus with --data-dir.
Ingest status
A green READY or amber INGESTING pill, then 70/70 files · 0 pending, the session count, and foreground watcher or argusd daemon. It refreshes every 4 seconds while ingesting and every 10 seconds when idle.
Parse errors
Transcript lines that could not be parsed are skipped, and the surrounding lines still ingest. This panel lists up to 50 of them, most recent first: the file path as the summary, and the reason plus the truncated raw line when expanded. An empty panel reads "No parse errors." A few entries are normal after a Claude Code update that changes a line shape; a flood is worth reporting.
Verified against argus-code 0.5.2.